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A study of the IGM metal enrichment using a series of SPH simulations is presented, employing metal cooling and turbulent diffusion of metals and thermal energy. An adiabatic feedback mechanism was adopted where gas cooling was prevented to…

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We explore the circumgalactic metal content traced by commonly observed low ion absorbers, including C II, Si II, Si III, Si IV, and Mg II. We use a set of cosmological hydrodynamical zoom simulations run with the EAGLE model and including…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-29 Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Joop Schaye , Robert A. Crain , Jessica K. Werk , Alexander J. Richings

We assess the metal content of the cool (10^4 K) circumgalactic medium (CGM) about galaxies at z<1 using an H I-selected sample of 28 Lyman limit systems (LLS, defined here as absorbers with 16.2<log N(H I)<18.5) observed in absorption…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 N. Lehner , J. C. Howk , T. M. Tripp , J. Tumlinson , J. X. Prochaska , J. M. O'Meara , C. Thom , J. K. Werk , A. J. Fox , J. Ribaudo

By means of chemo-photometric models for galaxies of different morhological types, we have carried out a detailed study of the history of element production by spheroidal and dwarf irregular galaxies. Spheroidal galaxies suffer a strong and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Francesco Calura , Francesca Matteucci

We report the first detection of the metal-bearing molecules sodium sulfide (NaS) and magnesium sulfide (MgS) and the tentative detection of calcium monoxide (CaO) in the interstellar medium (ISM) towards the Galactic Center molecular cloud…

We present for the first time predictions for UV line emission of intergalactic and circumgalactic gas from Adaptive Mesh Resolution (AMR) Large Scale Structure (LSS) simulations at redshifts 0.3<z<1.2, with specific emphasis on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Frank , Y. Rasera , D. Vibert , B. Milliard , A. Popping , J. Blaizot , S. Courty , J. M. Deharveng , C. Peroux , R. Teyssier , C. D. Martin

Observations have established that the diffuse intergalactic medium (IGM) at z ~ 3 is enriched to ~0.1-1% solar metallicity and that the hot gas in large clusters of galaxies (ICM) is enriched to 1/3-1/2 solar metallicity at z=0. Metals in…

(Abridged) We use a combination of high resolution N-body simulations and semi-analytic techniques to follow the formation, the evolution and the chemical enrichment of cluster galaxies in a Lambda-CDM Universe. We model the transport of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gabriella De Lucia , Guinevere Kauffmann , Simon D. M. White

As part of the Deciphering the Interplay between the Interstellar medium, Stars, and the Circumgalactic medium (DIISC) survey, we present the UV metal absorption features in the Circumgalactic Medium (CGM) near the H I gas disk…

We study the hot and cold circum-galactic medium (CGM) of 86 galaxies of the cosmological, hydrodynamical simulation suite NIHAO. NIHAO allows a study of how the $z=0$ CGM varies across 5 orders of magnitude of stellar mass using OVI and HI…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-19 Thales A. Gutcke , Greg S. Stinson , Andrea V. Macciò , Liang Wang , Aaron A. Dutton

We use a high-resolution cosmological simulation that includes hydrodynamics, multiphase star formation, and galactic winds to predict the distribution of metal line emission at z~0 from the intergalactic medium (IGM). We focus on two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Steven Furlanetto , Joop Schaye , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

Observations of metal lines in $\lyal$ absorption systems of small H~I column density and their ubiquitous nature suggest that the intergalactic medium (IGM) was enriched to about $Z \sim 0.01 \> Z_{\odot}$ by a redshift $z \sim 3$. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Biman Nath , Neil Trentham

Inhomogeneous chemical evolution models of galaxies which try to reproduce the scatter seen in element-to-iron ratios of metal-poor halo stars are heavily dependent on theoretical nucleosynthesis yields of core-collapse supernovae. Hence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 D. Argast , M. Samland , F. -K. Thielemann , O. E. Gerhard

We use a suite of cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the chemical enrichment history of the Universe. Specifically, we trace the origin of the metals back in time to investigate when various gas phases were enriched and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-29 Robert P. C. Wiersma , Joop Schaye , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , C. M. Booth , Tom Theuns , Anthony Aguirre

We focus on exploring the metal enrichment of the intergalactic medium (IGM) in Cold and Warm (1.5 and 3 keV) Dark Matter (DM) cosmologies, and the constraints this yields on the DM particle mass, using a semi-analytic model, Delphi, that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-04 Jonas Bremer , Pratika Dayal , Emma V. Ryan-Weber

We use high spectral resolution (R=45000) and high signal-to-noise ratio (S/N \~ 35-70 per pixel) spectra of 19 high-redshift (2.1<z_em<3.2) quasars to investigate the metal content of the low-density intergalactic medium using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bastien Aracil , Patrick Petitjean , Christophe Pichon , Jacqueline Bergeron

We study the composition of the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM) toward the Galactic center region (5 < |l| < 20 degree) by utilizing X-ray absorption features of three bright low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), GX 13+1, GX 5-1, and GX…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yoshihiro Ueda , Kazuhisa Mitsuda , Hiroshi Murakami , Kyoko Matsushita

Using Gadget-2 cosmological hydrodynamic simulations including an observationally-constrained model for galactic outflows, we investigate how feedback from star formation distributes mass, metals, and energy on cosmic scales from z=6->0. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Romeel Davé

We study the $z\approx3.5$ intergalactic medium (IGM) by comparing new, high-quality absorption spectra of eight QSOs with $\langle z_{\rm QSO} \rangle=3.75$, to virtual observations of the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-25 Monica L. Turner , Joop Schaye , Robert A. Crain , Tom Theuns , Martin Wendt

We investigated the impact of supernova feedback in gas-rich dwarf galaxies experiencing a low-to-moderate star formation rate, typical of relatively quiescent phases between starbursts. We calculated the long term evolution of the ISM and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 C. Melioli , F. Brighenti , A. D'Ercole